Water-closet connection



(No Model.)

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No. 297,321. Patented Apr. 22, 1884.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Application filed January 12,1884.

Patent No. 297,321, dated April 22, 1884.

(No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY O. VVEEDEN, of Boston, in the county ofSuffolk and State of Massachusetts, a citizen of the United States, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in-Water-OiosetConnections, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates to improvements in the coupling between theflushingpipe of an earthenware water-closet basin and the metal pipethrough which the water-supply is brought, and is illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 shows in elevation anearthenware bowl or closet fitted with my hereindescribed improvement.Fig. 2 shows a secling device at their point of attachment, and Fig. 3 asimilar section at right angles to that of Fig. 2. Upon the entrance orflushing pipe of an earthenware water-closet basin, A, I form a seriesof segmental projections, a, preferably three in number. I also providea couplingpieae, B, preferably of brass, provided at one extremity witha reduced externally-screwthreaded part, b, the bore-of whichcorresponds to that of the flushing-pipe of the closet. The rest of thispart B is cylindrical, of an interior diameter sulficient to pass by theprojections a, and this cylinder at its upper extremity is provided withturned-in parts 0. Between these turned-in parts gaps are leftsubstantially corresponding in extent to the extent of the projectionsa, by means of which the cylinder B is enabled to pass the projectionsto when slid onto the end of the flushing-connection in the manner shownin section at Fig. 2. The sleeve B, having been slid over theearthenware connection, as described, is turned until the parts 0 andthe parts a are in line. The box or chamber thus formed between thesleeve and the earthenware extension is now filled with a suitablecement or bind, for which I prefer to use sulphur melted and poured in,and the whole is thus firmly and closely united in place. The metallicsleeve B, passing over the exterior of the earthen ware connection,serves to strengthen it and protect it from liability to breakage, andthe projections or ribs a serve to strengthen the joint and to preventthe cylinder B from being accidentally withdrawn.

1 am aware that a metallic coupling-piece has been inserted in anearthenware connection, which is recessed to receive it; but this methodof construction tends to weaken the earthenware part, instead ofstrengthening it, and to increase the liability of breakage.

I claim The combination, with the flushing-pipe of an earthenwarewater-closet bowl, A, having the projections a, oi'a metallicsurrounding and re-enforcing connection, B, having the reducedscrew-threaded part b and the inwardlyprojecting parts 0, the wholebeing cemented and held together by a suitable cement or .bind, allsubstantially as herein specified and described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto sub scribed my name this 5th day ofJanuary, A.

' HENRY G. WEEDEN.

Witnesses:

J. HENRY TAYLOR, J AMES F. BLIGH.

